NSA

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration wants Section 215, the legal authority that allows the National Security Agency to collect Americans telephone records, renewed indefinitely. Thats despite earlier reports the NSA had shuttered its Cal…

Texas hasn't named the institutions so far due to "security concerns." Security teams hadn't identified the culprits. However, the evidence to date pointed to a "single threat actor" attacking all these entities at once. Ransomware attacks usually come from …

from the if-i-remember-correctly dept Five Years Ago The fight for government transparency continued this week in 2014, with a judge giving the DOJ until the end of the month to submit a declassified FISA court opinion explaining the justifications for Sect…

The Trump administration has reportedly applied to reauthorize the NSA spying program that collected millions of U.S. citizens phone records. ASSOCIATED PRESS Concerns over civil liberties have been reignited after the Trump administration applied to reaut…

Her Story developer Sam Barlow's latest non-linear FMV spectacular, Telling Lies, finally has a release day: it'll be available on PC and iOS devices next Friday, 23rd August. Telling Lies, which is being published by Annapurna Interactive (What Remains of E…

The bigger, more involved follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2015 FMV game Her Story is coming in hot. All we've known for a while about when you could play the Annapurna-published Telling Lies was that it was coming in 2019. Turns out, that's extremely so…

Earlier: Housing Starts decline to 1.191 Million Annual Rate in July Total housing starts in July were below expectations, and starts for May and June were revised down.  The weakness was in the volatile multi-family sector. The housing starts report showed…

Huawei announced the Mate 20 X (5G) for the Chinese market on July 26, which is also when it started taking reservations for the device through its official online store, Vmall. The phone is scheduled to have its first sale on August 16. Up until this moment…

Does the National Security Agency, one of the most secretive agencies of the U.S. government, use Slack, the all-consuming chat app that for many of us has become our primary form of human contact? Yes, absolutelyand not only that, they use an off-the-shelf v…

A new task force has been created to protect US elections. Matt Anderson / Getty Images Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, said Wednesday a special task force has been created to focus on Russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 e…